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Physical Desc
279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story. An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization....
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This miniseries, filmed in Leningrad, London, Paris, and Verdi's home region of Italy's Po Valley, required more than 100 actors, 1800 extras, and over 4000 costumes. The program gives a complete overview of Verdi's life and is filled with music from the composer's works sung in the original Italian and taken from past rare recordings featuring such opera artists as Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Birgit Nilsson.
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 audio discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
"Based on Vivaldi's Concerto for Oboe, RV447 and Concerto for two violins & cello, RV 565 this cutting-edge documentary styled film on Vivaldi takes a close look at his life and works and brings us to the Venice of Renaissance Italy, with its colourful re-creations of Carnival and commedia dell'arte festival."
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